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Lars de Groot
A driven student with a passion for biology and technology. I’m interested in genetics, molecular biology, programming, data science and plants. I collect and grow rare plants as a hobby in a self made greenhouse.
Education
Openbaar lyceum zeist
Havo
Zeist
2013 - 2018
- Profile: Science and health
- extra subject: Physics
Hogenschool Utrecht
HBO Life sciences
Utrecht
2018 - 2024
- Bacholar of Science: Bio molecular research
- Minor: Data science for biology
Extracurricular activities
V.V.S. Uranymus
Board year
Utrecht
2023 - current
- Fulfilled the role of head of board
- Gained experience in leadership and teamwork
Work Experience
Utrecht univeritair medisch centrum
General cleaner
Utrecht
2018 - 2018
- Cleaned the head entrance and radiology departments
- Gained experience in the hospital work enviroment
Barista café zeist
Barista
Zeist
2020 - 2021
- Barista employee with managerial duties
- Gained experience in team work dynamics
Lectoraat Innovative Testing in Life Sciences - Data Science Group
Intership
Utrecht
2022 - 2023
- Worked on thesis project: “Adverse outcome pathway relevant information extraction”
- Trained Language models for named entity recognition and relation extraction
Lectoraat Innovative Testing in Life Sciences - Data Science Group
Data scientist
Utrecht
2023 - current
- Improved the reproducibilty of ongoing projects
- Trained Language models for named entity recognition and relation extraction
Project Experience
Westerdijk Instituut
Xylitol production of Aspergillus niger
Utrecht
2020 - 2021
- Researched the production of xylitol of a Aspergillus niger mutant
- Gained experince in culturing fungi and homogenization methods.
Princes Maxima Centrum
R shiny wep app development
Utrecht
2021 - 2021
- Development of a R shiny app for easy creation of metadata files for high throughput screening experiments
- Gained experince in Rshiny.
ONTOX
Natural language processing
Utrecht
2022 - 2023
- Created and trained a information extraction pipeline leveraging named entity recognition and relation extraction to aid adverse outcome pathway development
- Gained experience in natural language processing and tools associated tools; spaCy and huggingface
Lectoraat Innovative Testing in Life Sciences
Project improvements for increased reproducibility
Utrecht
2023 - 2023
- Worked with researchers to improve the reproducibility of their projects
- Gained experience in realizing the pricipals of reproducible and open science